by Ron Parker

Robert Mitchell’s Matt’s Broken Vow reeled in runner-up Texas Wildcatter and surged clear to his second consecutive stakes victory with a 2 1/4-length win on Saturday in the $286,110 Canadian Derby (Can-G3) at Northlands Park.

Ridden by Emile Ramsammy for trainer Josie Carroll, Matt’s Broken Vow covered 1 3/8 miles in 2:19.40 on a track rated as fast. Texas Wildcatter, runner-up in the Gotham Stakes (G3) on March 8, was two lengths clear of Cool Ventura.

A three-year-old Broken Vow colt, Matt’s Broken Vow has won three stakes races this season at three different tracks. He was shipped to Canada after winning a maiden claiming race at Fair Grounds on March 15.

Matt’s Broken Vow scored his first graded stakes victory in the Marine Stakes (Can-G3) on May 17 at Woodbine and entered the Canadian Derby off a win in the Manitoba Lotteries Derby on August 4 at Assiniboia Downs.

Bred in Kentucky by Nicholas Lotz, Matt’s Broken Vow has won four of nine starts and earned $370,884.

He is one of three stakes winners out of the stakes-winning Ascot Knight mare Marianka, dam of Grade 3 winner High Button Shoes.

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Ron Parker is a Thoroughbred Times contributing writer